DSF 2011 Prepares to Set World Record

Wednesday 29 June 2011

With over 80 different seafood dishes, cooked simultaneously each day, The Dorset Seafood Festival 2011

(9^th & 10^th July) is ready to set a new record as the most extensive seafood menu offered at a single event in the world. Offering a far reaching range of dishes from around the world the festival’s menu will include; Goan-style fish Biryani with raita sauce, South West fish sushi, seafood pizza and Greek inspired scallops with Metaxa brandy.There will also be the old festival favourites of paella, scallop and chorizo skewers and homemade crab fishcakes. Only four years old, the event is one of the largest seafood festivals in the UK and was enjoyed by 50,000 visitors in 2010.

‘We’ve searched and scoured the globe to find a seafood festival that has served or is planning to serve as many dishes as the Dorset Seafood Festival and it seems there is none in existence,’ said Brian Cooper, DSF  committee member. ‘We have made sure that all tastes are catered for this year and in doing so have produced THE most extensive seafood menu of any existing seafood festival we can find. We are therefore planning to record the event with a well known association to really celeberate its extensive culinary offering. We are blessed with some of the most abundant local waters and talented chefs and we need to tell the world about it!’

The Dorset Seafood Festival 2011 is only made possible through the support of a raft of high profile sponsors, a brigade of celebrity chefs and a committed team. Champagne Pommery will once again take the position of title sponsor with Condor Ferries as a leading sponsor. Other high profile sponsors include Ringwood Brewery, LloydsTSB, Wines of Chile, Weird Fish, Coast Seafood, Event Insurance Services, Fish Face, Seafish South West and Commercial Recycling. Confirmed media partners are the Dorset Echo, Dorset Magazine and Resort Magazine. South West Trains will also be providing discounted travel for small groups travelling to the event.

This year’s event will see some new faces in the celebrity chef line up including; Lesley Waters, Ed Baines, Shaun Rankin, Richard Bertinet, Alex Aitkin and James Weare.They will join seasoned Dorset Seafood Festival chefs -  Mat Follas, John Wright and GilesThompson. Mark Hix will also be judging the 2011 Young Dorset Seafood Masterchef competition on Sunday 10^th July.

For the complete Dorset Seafood Festival programme visit www.dorsetseafood.co.uk

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Editor’s Notes

1.     Press release supplied by Tandem Marketing.  For more information please  contact Lisa Worthington 01202 237146 or 07889 403185.

2.     For more information regarding The Dorset Seafood Festival visit www.dorsetseafood.co.uk

3.     The Dorset Seafood Festival is part of Spirit of the Sea Spirit of the Sea - a nine day festival of independently organised and funded maritime related events that sit under the title name and taking place between 2^nd - 10^th July.

4.     Press shots available on request